for the first few hours, the chinese stalled, taking him sightseeing, insisting that he nap. finally with only a few hours left, henry kissinger met face to face with the chinese premier. >> at the end of the second day, about 18 hours before my departure, he said what are we going to say about the trip? >> and i said what trip are you talking about? >> and he said both trips. so they had made that move. >> both trips meaning your trip and the president's upcoming trip? >> which wasn't actually stated, but that was implied. >> with time running out, the men began drafting an official announcement. but they deadlocked on one key point. >> the issue was who had invited whom. the chinese wanted to say that we had invited ourselves. we wanted to say that the chinese had invited us. so between 2:00 at night and 10:00 in the morning we didn't know what was going to happen. what we now know is that they went to mao and he said who cares who invited whom. why don't they say we invited each other. >> the announcement i shall now ad is being simultaneously announced in peking and in th